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Mr. Fialho recommended changing the project description as follows: explore opportunities for open space protection and minimal development of remaining undeveloped southeast hills. Establish an easement with public access that stretches from Shadow Cliffs to Happy Valley Golf Course to Highway 84. Facilitate a process which includes property owners, developers, affected neighborhoods, land trust organizations, City staff and City Council with a goal to develop a consensus plan and protection of open space in perpetuity. Councilmembers McGovern and Thorne supported this priority with an amendment to the project description as recommended by Mr. Fialho. Mr. Brozosky asked if the facilitated process could occur within a three to six month time frame? Mr. Fialho said yes. Mr. Thorne believed the intent of this goal was to open up discussion and not be specific with regard to objectives where the community wants to try and define what its southern border would look like. He did not want this discussion to be driven with a predetermined conclusion or objective. Mr. Brozosky agreed to support this goal. Ms. McGovern asked if the project description could be changed to state, "develop a consensus plan for the southeast hills?" Mr. Sullivan said the wording "facilitating a process" needed to be included in the overall project description. In response to an inquiry by Mr. Brozosky regarding the Chain of Lakes priority, Jerry Iserson, Director of Planning and Community Development, said the process for would include a discussion for the General Plan as well as working with Zone 7 and LAFCO in order for the annexation to occur. Mr. Brozosky asked if the City had a right to annex the Chain of Lakes. Mr. Iserson said the Chain of Lakes is within the City's sphere of influence and is an area that is programmed to be annexed to the City. He recalled the City has been advocating annexation of the Chain of Lakes. Mr. Brozosky wanted to understand the advantages and disadvantages of annexing the Chain of Lakes into the City. Mr. Fialho said staff would define a process and Council would then decide whether or not to proceed. Mayor Hosterman asked if Council would lose anything by not prioritizing the annexation of the Chain of Lakes for the next five years? Mr. Fialho did not see a down side of not pursuing this goal in the short term. He noted that Zone 7 is currently using the Chain of Lakes for its storm water retention basin and will continue to do so because it is conditioned to only use it for that purpose; this occurred when City Council Priorities Workshop 12 08/23/05 Minutes